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SAVE THE DATE – BAPO Leadership Programme 2024/2025


APPLICATIONS OPEN WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 2024!

Programme Facilitator

Richard H Shorney, Real Healthcare Solutions Ltd.

Course dates:

Friday 15th November 2024
Launch event (full day in-person event)
10.30 – 16.30
Venue: Freeths LLP, Floor 3, The Colmore Building, 20 Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham B4 6AT

Three evening seminars – 18H30 – 20H30 – All virtual seminars

Seminar 1 – 23rd January 2025
Seminar 2 – 6th March 2025
Seminar 3 – 3rd April 2025

Friday 16th May 2025
Follow-up event (full day in-person event)
10H30 – 16H30
Venue: TBC

Agenda Topics

• AHP Leadership – where you fit in
• Leadership theories
• Working with colleagues – understanding personality traits
• Adaptability and resilience
• SpotlightPROFILE – Individual assessment profiles to support understanding of self
• Business case writing in healthcare – improving services
• Making an impact – leadership that works

The ideal applicant:

• A BAPO member who aspires to move from a more clinical role into team leader responsibility and/or is already within a position of team leader
• Excited to build your profile and extend your network, to influence key senior stakeholders and drive change
• A thirst for learning and personal development – aspiring to strengthening your capabilities to drive long-term career success
• The desire, determination and resilience to lead a team
• Passionate about being a Prosthetist/Orthotist with a drive to support the profession and fellow peers and the willingness to further engage with BAPO
• Available to attend all set programme dates in Birmingham in person and the virtual evening seminars
• The support of a line manager and/or organisational permission to apply

The cost for running the programme is covered by BAPO.

It is BAPO’s aim for the programme to fulfil the delegates’ leadership expectations from both an operational and strategic perspective.

In addition, the learner will develop their own leadership toolkit throughout the BAPO Leadership Programme and be able to apply the newly acquired skills in practice.

How to Apply:

Applications open on Wednesday 19th June 2024!

Spaces are limited, so act now. This programme is open to all BAPO members (apart from students). Students are excluded as the programme supports projects which will be located in the workplace. BAPO would especially welcome applications from prosthetists and also from members working in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

To apply please complete a 250-word expression of interest to attend this course, entitled:

“How I believe this BAPO leadership programme will assist my own professional development”

In addition to this expression of interest form and for your application to be considered, please email your CV to enquiries@bapo.com and include the subject heading (BAPO Leadership Programme Application).

BAPO welcomes applications to reflect the diversity of our profession, including but not limited to Age, Disability, Ethnicity and Race, LGBTQ+ community, Religion and Beliefs, and Veteran’s status.

The closing date for applications is Friday 19 July 2024

Successful candidates will be informed via email W/C Monday 5th August 2024

 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Certification of attendance will be provided to support your ongoing HCPC requirements under CPD.

Recent feedback about the programme

“I have really enjoyed this program and will certainly use the teachings and resources to improve my role in the P&O world.”

“I took away some real positives from the course and I have already started implementing them into my day-to-day life.”

“Fantastic opportunity, well organised, and offered some amazing insights into myself and how I interact with both myself and others”.

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NIHR – Inspiring Students into Research: INSIGHT information and application workshops

The University of Nottingham 

and De Montfort University, Leicester are delighted to announce:

NIHR INSIGHT EAST MIDLANDS (EM.INSIGHT). Inspiring Students into Research

 

ONLINE launch events and application workshops for all non-medical aspiring registered Healthcare, Public Health and Social Care researchers and their employers .

 

Are you a new or recent graduate (5 years FTE) interested in developing a career in research? Or an employer who’d like to support applicants from your organisation.

Are you in one of the following eligible registered professions:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/heenihr-ica-programme-eligible-professions-and-regulators/12204

This is an opportunity to find out about our new scheme offering development opportunities into the full range of research careers from research delivery to academia with full funding for Masters in Research Programmes, including fees and a stipend. FT and PT opportunities.

See the attached information sheet for details of: the INSIGHT scheme, masters programmes available and online launch and application workshop events.

NIHR-ApplicationGuidanceNotesMay24 (2)

Dr Claire Diver

Associate professor Physiotherapy

EM.INSIGHT Programme lead

Director of Postgradate research

Academic plan lead ma Research Methods (MARM)

Co-director HEE pre-doctoral fellowship

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Invitation to share experiences of the AHP educator career framework

Dear Members,

As part of the work that Beverley Durrant is leading for us on the Educator Workforce, she has secured a great opportunity for members to get involved with the next stage of development of the AHP Educator Career Framework.

Please see below for more information.

 RE: Invitation to share experiences of the AHP educator career framework

We are contacting you as you may already be using the Allied-Health-Professions-Educator-Framework.pdf (councilofdeans.org.uk) or attended the ‘Bringing the AHP Educator Career Framework Alive’ event in March 2024.  Whether you were there or not, you may like to be involved in the next steps of the framework development.

We are looking to conduct some short interviews to obtain people’s views and experiences of how they have used the AHP Educator Career Framework. This would involve participating in an interview that may take between 20-30 minutes via TEAMS at a time that will be negotiated with you but is likely to be in June 2024. 

It is very important to us that you have all the information you require about this project before you decide whether you wish to volunteer to participate.  Please do take some time to read the  participant information sheet and consent form below.

Consent_form AHPed v1 – 090424

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If you have any questions (about this email or the attached information sheet) or are happy to proceed, please do reply with the completed consent form to any of the project team at Canterbury Christ Church University. If you are replying to agree to be contacted for an interview could you also indicate if you have used the AHP Educator Career Framework before and a brief description in what capacity.

We would appreciate it if you could respond to this request within the next two weeks.

We thank you in advance for your further support and look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes
The project team.

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BAPO Regional Conference West Midlands SOLD OUT!

We are pleased to confirm that we are sold out for the next BAPO Regional Conference in the West Midlands.

The event is scheduled for Friday, September 6th, 2024, at the Tower and Hamilton Suites, Drayton Manor, Drayton Manor Drive, Fazeley, Mile Oak, Tamworth B78 3TW. You can find information on how to get there HERE

Our one-day event theme will be based on  “Sustainability in Prosthetics and Orthotics.” 

It will feature a combination of invited speakers and free paper presentations aimed at prosthetic and orthotic professionals. 

The program will commence at 10:00 am and conclude at 4:00 pm, with registration and exhibition starting at 9:00 am. There will be a 1-hour lunch break and two 15-minute coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon. All will be served in the room opening onto the exhibition area.

The event is targeted at P & O professionals and the wider P & O community. It is open to both BAPO members and non-members.

It is a great opportunity to enhance knowledge, support continuing professional development, network with colleagues, and engage with exhibitors in a face-to-face environment.

Come along to learn, collaborate, communicate, and share ideas!


Please note –  Oral Presentation:

  • Time limit for oral presentation is 15 minutes. A 5-minute maximum Q & A session will be allowed following the presentation.
  • All submissions will be reviewed by the BAPO review panel which reserves the right to accept or reject the application based on pre-approved criteria.
  • All submissions will receive a written acceptance or reason for not being included in the regional event.
  • We recognise and value the amount and depth of work which goes into preparing a submission. We want to encourage as many submissions as possible, which if not accepted, may be reconfigured for a future event.
  • There is a £200.00 prize awarded to the selected best oral presentation
  • The selected oral presentations will receive free registration to the conference.

Please note – Posters:

  • There will be an award of £100 for best poster.

If you have any questions, please email: enquiries@bapo.com